While the main servers run at a colo, the IRC was running on an older server at a residence. Since the power (Actually on generator and battery backup, but the Internet is down due to the area still being without power) has been down for a week now, unfortunately IRC is still down...

December 16, 2015 // 03:00 PM EST - If you’re trying to steal someone’s files from his or her computer, getting past the login screen can be hard, if not impossible. But thanks to a bizarre bug in several distributions of Linux, all you need is to hit the backspace key 28 times.